A nationwide study released Monday by Brown’s Promise and The Segregation Tracking Project identified Connecticut as one of the most segregated states in the country.

The study used data from the 2023-24 school year, the latest available, to measure both economic and racial segregation in each state. Researchers found Connecticut had the sixth-highest level of economic segregation and 11th-highest level of racial segregation in the U.S. It also ranked third-worst for “poverty packing,” the practice of cramming low-income students into specific districts while higher-income students attend school just across district lines.

According to those results, Connecticut in 2024 was more segregated than Alabama, home of the famous Montgomery bus boycott, or Kansas, the point of origin for Brown v. Board of Education. The numbers remain high despite a slight overall reduction in both racial and economic segregation in the Nutmeg State over the past decade.

Nationally, researchers said, the results reflect a troubling long-term trend: Seventy years after Brown, school segregation remains high, and little to no progress has been made in reducing it.

Report: CT schools among the most segregated in the U.S., Theo Peck-Suzuki and Calista Oetama, CT Mirror, June 23, 2026, available here